Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she has to generate both questions and answers , and in a well-organised text it is the generating of questions that is the most difficult task . |
| 2 | Pacemaking then was more predictable than now ; in a well-organised handicap someone like Wooderson always had a target just ahead . |
| 3 | To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent . |
| 4 | Other recent applications have included the entire works held in a prestigious library which were infested with booklice . |
| 5 | The other victim , Gary Robson , was working on a Colchester Mascot machine when his gloves got entangled in a rotating bar he had tried to stop wobbling . |
| 6 | Although it was said in a jocular fashion it was too much for Maura . |
| 7 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 8 | There are advantages to listening in a face-to-face conversation which communication links such as the telephone and tape recorder do not offer , although being in the presence of the speaker is not an absolute prerequisite for ‘ effective listening ’ . |
| 9 | Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement . |
| 10 | However , in a well-maintained aquarium they can reduce the chances of disease . |
| 11 | Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances . |
| 12 | In a final communiqué they agreed to accelerate economic integration of their countries by the creation of a customs union by 1995 , and called for the strengthening of economic ties with their main trading partner , the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 13 | The US decision was criticized by ASEAN in a final communiqué which stated that " attempts to change the [ UN ] representation of Cambodia at this time … would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution to the problem " . |
| 14 | In a final hearing it will also have seen the guardian ad litem 's report . |
| 15 | The agreement ( in a final version whose legal drafting had yet to be completed ) would become operational only after ratification by the federal parliament and all of the provincial legislatures . |
| 16 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 17 | Well in a modern world we 've lost the faith that certain people are appointed by God to do this for us , or especially naturally fitted to do it , so how are we going to accept the rule of some people rather than others ? |
| 18 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |
| 19 | Returning , she surveyed in a dispassionate way her husband of twenty years : the incipient double chin , the receded hair-line , the hairy chest — constricted by his sideways turn — pouched almost in a female way . |
| 20 | Even in a healthy society it is enough that the officials accept the secondary rules of recognition , adjudication and change and that the citizens acquiesce . |
| 21 | In order for a house to be maintained in a healthy state it is necessary to provide a means whereby soil and waste water can be quickly and inoffensively removed from the property . |
| 22 | She could see in his eyes that he was thinking the same , as in a flat tone he told her , ‘ Point taken . |
| 23 | Thus was Cu Sith , and he differed from other dogs in having paws that left prints the size of a man 's , and a long tail plaited in a flat braid which lay coiled upon his back . |
| 24 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 25 | Figure 1 a and b depicts , from behind , a pair of eyes viewing a rectangular pattern lying in a fronto-parallel plane which is either close to the observer ( a ) or far away ( b ) . |
| 26 | Paul Simpson broke free on the left , raced into the box and fired in a low-angled shot which keeper Ludo Miklosko fumbled . |
| 27 | The harddisk does not suffer from the same problems as it is in a sealed unit which should not be tampered with in any circumstances . |
| 28 | Dawn Allenby presented Richard St Ives with an oil-painting of a bull in a tortoise-shell frame which had caught her eye at the back of a butcher 's stall in St John 's Market . |
| 29 | Koeman was involved everywhere and cracked in a 35-yard shot which cannoned back off the post after 48 minutes . |
| 30 | Yet in a curious way it was John who did more to restore Sam than any of them . |